Fire

Calf Canyon Fire: Community Meeting Provides Opportunity For Public Voices

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Map of the Calf Canyon Fire. Courtesy/SFNF 

SFNF News:

The U.S. Forest Service and Mora County hosted a community meeting Aug. 30 in Mora with more than  150 members of the public and representatives from more than 10 different agencies.

Community members were able to ask questions and voice concerns about wildfire and flooding impacts related to the burned area. Agency representatives presented information about available services such as debris removal, covering uninsured or underinsured losses, emergency watershed protection including aerial seeding and point protection, agricultural Read More

Forest Service: Status Of Calf Canyon Fire As Deer And Elk Hunting Seasons Begin

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Forest Service News:

SANTA FE – The Santa Fe and Carson national forests, along with the Interagency Management Team assigned to the Calf Canyon Fire, are working to find solutions to continually reopen areas of the forests as suppression repair work is completed and weather patterns change over the burn area.

A third reduction just took place on the Carson National Forest last week with another one anticipated possibly for this week.

“I want to acknowledge that we are in a difficult and unique time where fire-related closures remain in place as archery hunting season begins for deer and elk Read More

Integrity New Mexico Calls For Transparency And Investigation Into Hermits Peak Prescribed Burn

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Integrity New Mexico News:

…While no one is sure of the final cost, the Governor estimated the cost ‘in the billions’

SANTA FE — Integrity New Mexico has filed a request with the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Agriculture* for an investigation into whether there was undue political pressure to get the Hermits Peak prescribed burn done.  

The Forest Service is responsible for the largest forest fire disaster in the state’s history. Numerous media outlets have reported that rank-and-file Forest Service employees felt pressured to “get the job done” in a political environment Read More

Luján Meets Officials & Communities Impacted By Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire To Urge Continued Federal Support

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Sen. Ben Ray Luján meets Wednesday with the staff at John T. Harrington Forestry Research Center. Courtesy/BRL Office

Sen. Ben Ray Luján tours Las Vegas and Mora communities impacted by the fire. Courtesy/BRL Office

U.S. SENATE News:

LAS VEGAS, N.M. – Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) traveled to Las Vegas and Mora to tour communities impacted by the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire and receive an update on the current recovery efforts in the communities of Mora and San Miguel Counties from local officials and state and federal agencies assisting with the fire.

Following their discussion, Read More

Fire Relief Center Moved To New Mexico Highlands Univ.

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NMHU News:

The Fire Relief Center once located at the old Memorial Middle School gymnasium was moved to Sala de Madrid on the New Mexico Highlands University campus at the end of July.

The Center will continue to provide hot meals twice a day at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m., and a range of services, including assistance with resources, accessing government relief, and navigating FEMA, available to those affected by the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fires and the subsequent flooding.

The Fire Relief Center is open 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Sala de Madrid, which is located on the corner of 8th Street Read More

Calf Canyon Fire Now 100 Percent Contained

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SFNF News:

Sunday’s fire managers on the Calf Canyon Fire announced that it is 100 percent contained.

Containment signifies that a control line has been completed around the fire’s perimeter, which can reasonably be expected to stop the fire’s spread.

Based on robust monsoonal moisture and monitoring of the fire perimeter for the last month, fire mangers have high confidence there are no remaining heat sources and no additional growth will occur.

The Calf Canyon Fire is still being managed as a wildfire, and fire personnel continue to work on the incident. Before a fire is declared “out,” it Read More

Bilingual PIOs Now Assisting On Calf Canyon Fire In Mora

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Map of the Calf Canyon Fire. Courtesy/SFNF

SFNF News:

Bilingual Public Information Officers (PIOs) with the Southwest Incident Management Team (SWIMT) began staging 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily Friday at the Mora Volunteer Fire Department. 

They will be onsite to help community members fill out Suppression Repair Forms, verify that forms are complete and entered in the queue. Information for emergency help and services related to post-fire flooding.

If forecasted weather is calling for flash flooding which could cause impacts to roadways making it unsafe for travel, personnel will not be present. Read More

LAPSA Members Meet LANL’s Robotic Dog SPOT

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Members of the Los Alamos Public Safety Association (LAPSA) gather at North Mesa Park for their August meeting. Guest presenter Jeff Hyde at right, principal investigator for the SPOT Robot Implementation Program at LANL and his team, provide a demonstration of SPOT, a remote-control robotic dog. LAPSA members had the opportunity to practice maneuvering SPOT and discuss potential public safety applications for this emerging technology. LAPSA members from left, Oliver Morris, Lenny Upshaw, Jessie Galvan, Cody Ulrich, Lisa La Pointe-Tafoya, Mel Tafoya, Lapsa President Alice Kahle  Read More

Unitarian Church Hosts Final ‘Seed Ball Sunday’ Aug. 21

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Courtesy/UCLA

Unitarian Church News:

The last of three Seed Ball Sundays is 1-2:30 p.m., Aug. 21 in the Children’s Playground at the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, 1738 N. Sage St.

The public is invited to participate in this free family-oriented, multi-generational event. All supplies and seeds will be provided.

The finished seed balls will be donated to the State Land Office in its on-going effort working with Forest Service to seed burned areas of New Mexico’s forests.

Although forest fires are no longer on people’s minds, the devastated forests and all the creatures still need the community’s Read More

Calf Canyon Fire: Break In Monsoon Over Weekend

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Map of the Calf Canyon Fire. Courtesy/SFNF 

SFNF News: 

Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) would like to remind residents who need suppression repair on their private property to complete the Private Land Suppression Repair Survey.  

Please fill out one survey per property/parcel number. Members of the public who are looking for a status on the assessment or repair, please call 720.417.8048 for assistance in English, or 505.398.3889 for assistance in Spanish.  If members of the public submit multiple repair surveys for the same property, it slows the process of verifying assessments Read More